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Friday, July 28, 2006
Dude, what up? Why is my MacBook Pro just shutting off by itself? No warning, no pop-up from OS X, no nothing. Just off!
Seems like I’m not the only one having this problem as the battery looks to be the issue. Sean Bonner has been reporting his problem for some time now and even has an account of an Apple Store employee tipping his hand that they know about this problem…without actually admitting it is a problem.
In my particular case, I’ll be working and off goes my MacBook Pro. At first, I just assumed my battery was dead and I had ignored the warnings. But when it happened after yanking the green lit MagSafe power cord, I knew something was up and turned over my MBP to find a full row of green lights on my battery. ‘I knew it!’ I thought to myself.
Now it’s happening more often than not while running on battery and it’s becoming annoying. The problem with this is if I call Apple Care, I’m afraid of losing my Mac for a week. Ugh, a whole week without my Mac? Heck, a half working Mac is still better than a fully working PC! But, I want this fixed and maybe I’ll complain about the whining, too, and get a new fan and logic board. We’ll see.
I’ll keep you posted how this turns out and let me know if you’re seeing this on your MBP.
July 28th, 2006 at 9:32
Go ahead and call AppleCare. Like you, I had a problem with my MacBook Pro shutting off without warning when the battery was still around 40 to 50%. I called AppleCare and the next morning I had a new battery. I did not have to send the laptop in.
Macintouch posted the results of a poll this morning that show that 11% of the people who responded were encountering sudden shutdowns. So this problem seems to be affecting a fairly large number of people.
July 28th, 2006 at 9:47
With all the hubbub in the Mac news media regarding swelling / malfunctioning batteries, this doesn’t surprise me. My theory: I’m betting your battery is biting the dust. The behavior you describe is the *exact* behavior my old Powerbook Titanium 800 MHz exhibits when it’s original battery’s charge suddenly drops to nothing after being spent. Mac OS X gets no warning from the battery, and as a result, gives you no warning.